3*8 BOX 
may be found that fliall exactly anfiwer the Ttbove defcnp- 
tion, and it may at fometimes happen that fuch a one can¬ 
not be found ; I would have the dividends in the- mean 
time applied to fuch perfon as the matter, wardens, and 
adidants, tliall think approaches neared to what I have de- 
fcribed. And whereas the above truds will occafion fome 
trouble : I give to the faid company, in cafe they think, 
proper to accept the truds, two hundred and fifty pounds.” 
It is almod fuperfluous to add that the trud was accepted, 
and is properly executed. 
BOW'YER,/ An archer; one that ufes the bow.— 
Call for vengeance from the bowyer king. Dryden. —One 
whofe trade is to make bows. 
BOWYERS’ COM'PANY, one of the ancient com¬ 
panies of the city of London, whofe trade it formerly was 
to make bows. The bowyers dand didinguidied from flet- 
chers, who made arrows.. The bowyers’ company was in¬ 
corporated in 1620: and dill confidsof a mader, two war¬ 
dens, twelve adidants, and thirty on the livery. See Ar¬ 
chery, vol. ii. p. 48. 
BOX,/ [box. Sax. bujle , Ger.] A cafe made of wood, 
or other matter, to hold any thing. It is didingui/hed front 
chejl , as the lefs from the greater. It is fuppofed to have 
its name from the box wood.—A magnet, though put in 
an ivory boy, will, through the box, fend forth his em¬ 
bracing virtue to a beloved needle. Sidney.- r-The cafe of 
the mariner’s compafs. The ched into which money given 
is put. Seats in the playhoufe ; 
She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring; 
A vain, unquiet, glittering, wretched, thing. Pope. 
Box, is alfo ufed for an uncertain quantity or meafure: 
thus a box of quickfilver contains from one to two hundred 
weight; a box of prunellas, 141b. a box of rings for keys, 
two grofs, &c. 
To BOX, v. n.' To inclofe in a box. 
BOX,/, [bock, a cheek, Welfb,] A blow on the head 
given with the hand.—If one fliould take my hand per¬ 
force, and give another a box pn the ear with it, the law 
pilnilheth the other. Bramhall, 
To BOX, v. n. To fight with the fid.—A leopard is like 
a cat; he boxes with his fore-feet, as a cat doth her kitlins. 
Grew. 
To BOX, v-. a. To drike with the fid. 
BOX-AFR 1 CAN,/ in botany. See Myrsine. 
BOX'BERG, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Lower Rhine and the Palatinate : thirty-four miles eaft of 
Heidelberg. 
BOX'EN, / Made of box.—The young gentlemen 
learned, before all other things, to defign upon tablets of 
boxen wood, Dryden. —Refembling box : 
Her faded cheeks are chang’d to boxen hue, 
And in her eyes the tears are ever new. Dryden. 
BOX'ER,/ A man who fights with his fid. Boxers, 
among the Romans, was a kind of athletae, called pugiles. 
They battled with great force and fury, infomuch as to break 
bones, and often to kill each other. The drange disfigure¬ 
ments thefe boxers underwent, were fuch that they fre¬ 
quently could not be known, and rendered them the fub- 
je£t of many railleries. In the Greek anthology there are 
four epigrams of the poet Lucilius, and one of Lucian, 
wherein their disfigurements are humouroufly expofed. 
See Boxing. 
BOX'ES,/ On a new conftruftion for wheel-carriages, 
fee the article Bi.ock, p. 123, of this volume. 
BOX'FORD, a market-town in Suffolk, fituated in a 
fertile vale, fixty-two miles from London by the way of 
Sudbury, and fixty-three by Colcheder. The town, which 
is pleafant, confidsof feveral dreets, which centre in an 
area. Its chief trade formerly confided in manufacturing 
blue woollens. It now makes confiderable quantities of 
malt, chiefly for the London market; and has a manufac¬ 
tory eftablidied for dreding fheep and deer (kins in oil. 
The church is a large flructure, has a fpire deeple, and a 
BOX 
porch of Curious Workman (hip. Its 'fairs are on Eafler 
Monday, and St. Thomas’s day. Here is a free grammar- 
fchool, founded by queen Elizabeth; its endowment, with 
an augmentation by the late John Gurden, of Aflington- 
hall, Efq. about 30I. a year. Boxford is diflant from Sud¬ 
bury fix miles, Ipfwich fifteen, St. Edmund’s Bury eigh¬ 
teen, and Colcheder twelve. Near the town dands Peyton- 
hall, the ancient feat of the Peytons, from which place and 
family defeended the UfFords, earls of Suffolk, who were 
proprietors of the cadles of Oxford, Eye, Framlinghattij 
Bungay, and Haughley, at one and the fame time. 
BOX'HORN (Marc Zuerius), a learned critic born at 
Bergen-op-Zoom in 1612, was profeffor of eloquence at 
Leyden, and alfo of politics and hidovy in the room of 
Heinlius. He publidied, 1. Theatrum Urbium Hollandiae. 
2 . Scriptores Hifforise Augufta:, cum Notis. 3. Poetaii 
Satyrice minores, cum comment. 4. Notes on Judin, Ta¬ 
citus ; and a great number of other works. He died in 
1633, aged forty-one. 
BOX'ING,/. The fcience of fighting with the fids, ei¬ 
ther fimply clofed, or with a done or leaden ball grafped 
in each hand ; in which fenfe, boxing coincides with' the 
pugilatus of the Romans, and what with us is fometimes 
called trial of manhood. When the champions had <r(p<xtpxi f 
or balls, whether of lead or done, it was properly deno¬ 
minated <7^aipo/xa^ia. The ancient boxing differed from 
the pugna cejluum, in which the combatants had leathern 
thongs on their hands, and balls to drike their antagonids; 
though this didinition is frequently overlooked, and fight¬ 
ing with the ccejlus ranked as a part of the bufinefs of pu¬ 
giles. We may didinguifh three fpecies of boxing, viz. 
where both the head and the hands were naked ; where 
the hands were armed, and the head naked ; and where 
the head was covered with a kind of cap called amphotides, 
and the hands alfo furnifhed with the ctedus. The art of 
boxing is very ancient, having been exercifed in the he¬ 
roic ages. Thofe who prepared themfelves for it, ufed 
all the means that could be contrived to render themfelves 
fat and flefhy, that they might be better able to endure 
blows: whence corpulent men and women were ufually 
called pugiles, according to Terence : Siqua cjl habilior pau- 
lo, pugilem effe aiunt. This vulgar though favourite art has 
been in a manner appropriated by the Englifh. About 
half a century ago it was encouraged by the nobility, pa- 
tronifed by the fird fubjeft in the realm, and tolerated by 
the magidrates. Before the edablifhment of Broughton’s 
amphitheatre, a booth was erected at Tottenham Court, in 
which the proprietor, George Taylor, invited the profeL 
fors of the art to difplay their (kill, and the public to be 
prefent at its exhibition. The bruifers then had the re¬ 
ward due to their prowefs, in a divifion of the entrance-mo¬ 
ney, which fometimes was 100 or 150I. The general mode 
of fharing was for two-thirds to go to the winning cham¬ 
pion, while the remaining third was the right of the lofer; 
though fometimes by an exprefs agreement of the parties, 
the conqueror and vanquidted fhared alike.. The nobility 
and gentry having complained of the inconveniencies fuf- 
tained at Taylor’s booth, prevailed on Broughton, thenrifing 
into note as the fird bruiier in London, to build a place bet- 
teradapted for fuch exhibitions behind Oxford-road. After 
a courfeof years, however, thefe exhibitions became gra* 
dually lefs patronifed and frequented, owing probably to 
the refinement of our manners. Lately, indeed, they again 
became fadiionable, till a fatal iflue which attended one of 
thefe brutal conteds brought the practice again into dif- 
repute ; one of the combatants having been killed on the 
fpot. To the difgrace of the times, thefe favage practices 
were encouraged by thofe perfons whofe elevated dation 
in focietv impofe on them the duty of fetting a more peace¬ 
able example to the lower orders of the community. 
BOX'ING,/ Among failors, is ufed to denote the re¬ 
hear ling the feveral points of the compafs in their proper 
order. Boxing is alfo ufed for the tapping of a tree to 
make it yield its juice. The boxing of maple is performed 
by making an hole with an ax or chiflel into the Ode of the 
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